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Adapt or Die Dept.
Anyone with even a passing familiarity with the storied Red Sox/Yankees rivalry will tell you that Bostonians sure can hold a grudge.

By: BRETT MICHEL | May 21, 2008

Off the hook-up

Sex and the single student
It took me several years after college to understand what true relationship intimacy was about.

By: NEELY STEINBERG | May 14, 2008

More naughty cops
This past summer, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis was outraged by the actions of four officers, including three lieutenants, accused of manipulating the detail system to defraud the department.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | May 14, 2008

Keeping the faith

Mobe turns 30
Boston has a good rep in progressive circles for being on the right side — most of the time — on every social/political issue since slavery.

By: CLIF GARBODEN | May 07, 2008

Economy drive

Trade fairly
Do you take your coffee with cream, sugar, or a dash of social responsibility? Is that a banana or a gun in your pocket?

By: MIKE MILIARD | May 07, 2008

Ding Ho home

Comedy benefit adds second show
Opening a comedy club in a Cambridge Chinese restaurant was a laughable idea unto itself.

By: CLIF GARBODEN | April 30, 2008

Cylons for McCain

12 clues that suggest one of Battlestar Galactica's "Final Five" is running for President
The lateset season of Battlestar Galactica is kind of ho-hum: until you suddenly realize that one of the Final Five is running for president!

By: MEG MUCKENHOUPT | April 30, 2008

Not fade away

Ain't no party like a Wormtown party
Wormtown. It's a state of being, an alternative reality, a club-music subculture centered in Worcester, Massachusetts.

By: CLIF GARBODEN | April 30, 2008

For the birds

Artful lodger comes to MIT
Buckminster Fuller was an odd duck, one who routinely tackled concepts foreign to him.

By: IAN SANDS | April 23, 2008

Drawing a bead on misery

Mission to Uganda
It’s not uncommon for documentary photographer Karen Sparacio to get phone calls from Uganda at 3 am.

By: SHARON STEEL | April 23, 2008

Scott's honor

Fearful return to P-Town
Bostonians have begun their annual sojourns to Cape Cod.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | April 23, 2008

More police, less Harvard

Freedom watch
The Harvard Crimson reported this week the arrest of two non-student demonstrators at a student-organized protest in front of Holyoke Center.

By: HARVEY SILVERGLATE | April 16, 2008

Whither Wilder?

Valerie goes Down Under
This past week, the Australian Ballet announced that it has hired Wilder to be its new executive director.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | April 16, 2008

Whither Joyce Kulhawik?

Boston TV kills A&E coverage
Veteran arts-and-entertainment anchor Joyce Kulhawik is the last of her kind, at the station and in Boston.

By: SEAN KERRIGAN | April 09, 2008

Still dissecting

Danny Schechter’s bid for media reform
A year after releasing his remarkably prescient film on the then-nascent financial crisis, In Debt We Trust , veteran progressive journalist Danny Schechter finally made it onto CNBC.

By: DAN KENNEDY | April 10, 2008

We can be heroes

Courage vs. abuse
Until now, the only way to use your ovaries to combat domestic violence was to yank ’em out, throw ’em in a sack, and use them to wallop an assailant.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | April 02, 2008

Raising Hellboy

Mike Mignola’s sympathetic devil
Got bad guys? Call Hellboy.

By: KRISTINA WONG | March 26, 2008

The Gray Lady, the FCC, and indecency

Freedom watch
Phoenix readers must think I’m obsessed with four-letter locker-room words, but I’m really not.

By: HARVEY SILVERGLATE | March 26, 2008

Were they just bluffing?

Online-poker players ante up, then fold
The world is full of aggrieved groups: the Kurds, PETA, Boston firefighters. But you probably wouldn’t think to put poker players on the list.

By: ADAM REILLY | March 20, 2008

No loss for words

Synonymous with pretense
Roget felt his life’s mission was to “bring order to the world,” via “clear communication.”

By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN | March 19, 2008

The briefly indecent Boston Globe

Freedom watch
It was startling to see the Boston Globe ’s online edition publish a Reuters wire-service article on Monday, March 17, containing the words “fuck” and “shit.”

By: HARVEY SILVERGLATE | March 19, 2008

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